Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-22
Ireland Quiet Under the Coercion Law

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ireland Quiet Under the Coercion Law.
| LONDON, December 2O.--Whether the
season Of quiet how reignng in Ireland IL
due to the Governments Irish policy,
which consists chiefly in it's Enforcement Of
| the Crimes act, or to a desire on the part
OF the Irish people To remain quiet unit!
Parliament meets and their leaders can
Curlbat the policy OF repression in the
House OF Commons, is an open question;
| bat certain Il Is that, to all appearances,
| ireland has not been 80 quiet IN years as
now.
NHionali~ts Will not, Of course, admit
that the operation of the Coercion law has
nade any difference in the conduct of the
people OF Ireland or the policy OF the Ma
tiunal League and it is more than likely
that it has not, yet the ministerialists con-
| tend that it has, aud are much elated in
contemplation OF the change. The convlc-
| ton Of Mr.. Hooper, the Cork editor, has
certainly had very little effect upon h,s
/ brother journalists in Ireland, who are
pledged to continue the publication OF the
proceedings OF League meetings, and the
probabilities are that the number OF edit
tors occupying cells in the Irish jails will
/ be- LARGELY increased within the next two
weeks.
The most noticeable species Of defiance
| Of the Crimes Act has all along been the
persistenCy Of the newspapers IN dissent
uatiu. the details of the meetings OF the
| League branches, and only in one or two
casts,where the editor Of paper has been
! inp,i5nned for such publication has there
! been even the slightest changein the policy
| Of the ptppr he represented or conducted.
! League meetings are held regularly, de-
| spit, their proclamation, and their pro-
ceedings are published with the same dis
regard Of the executives prohibition. The
government can imprisOn editors, and
does: but il doesn't seem to make much
Roadway in suppressing the practices for
which they are InCarc' rated.
Na,lnualists Csnsured by bishop.
LONDON, December 20.-MOst Rev.
Edward 7. O'Dwyer, Roman Catholic
Bishop of Limerick, writes to the papers
accusing the Nationalist newspapers Of
irving 10 CoerCe Mgr. PersicO and the Pope,
and condemning their methods. lie de-
clares that the present guidance Of the Irish
agitation is politically stupid and morally
wrong
Tnc Bishop denies that he supported the
Government IN an intrigue with Mgr. Per
sicO. Tie admits that he approved the
land agitation, but declares that he con-
demued boycotting and the plan OF CAM
paigu.
Doherty Escapes the GAllOws.
LONDON, December 2O--Dan Doherty,
the American who shot and killed George
/ Nj. Graham. another American, has been
convicted OF mansiaugh.gr and sentence d
IN pcnal >ervitude for life The Judge i'll
sentencing DOherty declared that the jury
| had taken mercitul view of the prisoner 5
crime. They would, he said, have been
paytec'lv justified in returning p verdict OF
guilty ol murder, ami mad they done so he
/ would not have hesitated to pass a death
sentence.
| Corkorians Defy the Proclamation.
DUBLIN, December 2O.-Notwithstand-
ing the imprisonment of Mr.. Hooper, NJ.
p. and editor of the Cork Herald, and Mr..
| Tanner, NJ. p, many news agents persist
in selling copies of the paper containing
reporto OF meetings of the suppressed
branches OF the National League. The
Mayor Of Cork and committee OF the
Cork branch of the National League have
summoned a public meeting Tor the pur-
pose Of adopting measures which will in
/ sure the continued sale of the paper.
Nicksls for Frenchmen.
PARIS, December 20.-The irst issue OF
nickel and silver coinage in France will
appear shortly, amounting to 10000, 600
| francs.
Japan Calling IN Foreign Deposits.
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, December 90
The government has decided to call in all
the gold and silver coin which it has here
tOiore kept deposited in banks in foreign
countries in order to pay off public debts
abroad without making it necessary to send
ont money from Japan for the purpose.
| Heretofore this coin has been allowed to
remain in banks abroad without drawing
interest. There is now o decided outflow
Of silver coin from this country. due prob
! ably TO the constant and increasing differ
ence between imports and exports, and in